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toll-road
A road for travel on which tolls must be paid
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  1. A road for travel on which tolls must be paid
freeway
A multiple-lane divided highway with fully controlled access, as by cloverleafs
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  1. A multiple-lane divided highway with fully controlled access, as by cloverleafs
  2. A highway without toll charges
interstate
(US) A freeway that is part of the Interstate Highway System
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  1. (US) A freeway that is part of the Interstate Highway System
  2. One of a national system of expressways connecting major population centers in the United States.
avenue
(--- Chiefly British) The drive leading from the main road up to a country house.
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  1. (--- Chiefly British) The drive leading from the main road up to a country house.
  2. A street, esp. a wide, principal one; often, one running at right angles to others called “streets”
  3. A way of approach to something
boulevard
The landscaping on the sides of a boulevard or other thoroughfare.
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  1. The landscaping on the sides of a boulevard or other thoroughfare.
  2. A broad city street, often tree-lined and landscaped.
  3. A broad, well-made street, often one lined with trees, grass plots, etc.
drive
The means or apparatus for transmitting motion or power to a machine or from one machine part to another.
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  1. The means or apparatus for transmitting motion or power to a machine or from one machine part to another.
  2. A strong organized effort to accomplish a purpose:
  3. The power or energy to get things done; enthusiastic or aggressive vigor
expressway
A major divided highway designed for high-speed travel, having few or no intersections.
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  1. A major divided highway designed for high-speed travel, having few or no intersections.
  2. A divided highway for through traffic, with full or partial control of access and generally with overpasses or underpasses at intersections
  3. (Canada, parts of the US, Malaysian, Singapore) A road built to freeway standards.
freeway
A multiple-lane divided highway with fully controlled access, as by cloverleafs
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  1. A multiple-lane divided highway with fully controlled access, as by cloverleafs
  2. A highway without toll charges
highway
Any road freely open to everyone; public road
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  1. Any road freely open to everyone; public road
  2. A main public road, especially one connecting towns and cities.
  3. A direct way to some objective
path
(Computers) A sequence of commands or a link between points that is needed to reach a particular goal.
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  1. (Computers) A sequence of commands or a link between points that is needed to reach a particular goal.
  2. The route or course along which something travels or moves:
  3. A track or way worn by footsteps; trail
road
A course or path:
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  1. A course or path:
  2. An open, generally public way for the passage of vehicles, people, and animals.
  3. A way; path; course
roadway
A road, especially the part over which vehicles travel.
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  1. A road, especially the part over which vehicles travel.
  2. The main or central portion of a road, used by the vehicles.
  3. A way used as a road.
route
A means of reaching a goal:
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  1. A means of reaching a goal:
  2. A road, course, or way for travel from one place to another:
  3. A road, way, or course for traveling; esp., a highway
street
A public road in a town or city; esp. a paved thoroughfare with sidewalks and buildings along one or both sides
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  1. A public road in a town or city; esp. a paved thoroughfare with sidewalks and buildings along one or both sides
  2. Such a public way considered apart from the sidewalks:
  3. A public way or road along with the houses or buildings abutting it:
superhighway
Expressway
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  1. Expressway
  2. (US) An expressway, especially one designed for high speeds.
thoroughfare
A public street open at both ends; esp., such a street through which there is much traffic; highway; main road
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  1. A public street open at both ends; esp., such a street through which there is much traffic; highway; main road
  2. A place of passage from one location to another.
  3. A way through or passage through
thruway
Expressway
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  1. Expressway
  2. (US, nonstandard) Alternative form of throughway.
way
A route or course that is or may be used to go from one place to another
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  1. A route or course that is or may be used to go from one place to another
  2. Distance [a long way off]
  3. Space to proceed:
Find another word for turnpike. In this page you can discover 21 synonyms, antonyms, idiomatic expressions, and related words for turnpike, like: toll-road, freeway, interstate, highway, avenue, boulevard, drive, expressway, freeway, highway and path.

Sentence Examples

  • He'd take the turnpike extension south.

  • The various grounds of exemption from toll on turnpike roads were all of a public character, e.g.

  • The borough is built on nearly level ground in the fertile valley of the Conewago, at the point of intersection of the turnpike roads leading to Baltimore, Carlisle, York and Frederick, from which places the principal streets - sections of these roads - are named.

  • In the Lowlands the main roads were constructed under the Turnpike Acts, the earliest of which was obtained in 1750.

  • In 1700 it was incorporated as a township. The "old Connecticut path," the Boston-to-Worcester turnpike, was important to the early fortunes of Framingham Center, while the Boston & Worcester railway (1834) made the greater fortune of South Framingham.

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